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Water treatment plant built 2 thousand years ago by the Mayans

The water treatment plant built by the Mayans 2,000 years ago could work today. Ancient Maya people living in Central America developed one of the oldest water purification systems in the world. US experts at the Corriental reservoir in Tikal, northern Guatemala. They found remnants of the system dating back 2 thousand years. Researchers have revealed that the water treatment system can still work today.

US scientists have uncovered one of the oldest water treatment plants in the world. The remains of a two-thousand-year-old facility built by the Mayans have found in the Corriente reservoir in Tikal, northern Guatemala.

The researchers noted that a strainer made of quartz crystals and zeolite used in the construction of the system that cleans one of the ancient Maya’s main water sources.

Quartz and zeolite, which remove harmful microbes and heavy metals such as aluminum, are also used in modern water filtration systems used today.

Anthropologist Barnett Tankersley from the University of Cincinnati. “The interesting thing is that the water treatment system built 2000 years ago could still work today. Presumably the Mayans built the world’s first modern water treatment plant. This was not the case in Europe and Mesopotamia during this period.”

Scientists stated that Tikal, like other Mayan cities, built on lime deposits where water difficult to reach. It stated that the transportation of drinking water to the region, where drought was experienced during a long period of the year, increased the population and job opportunities in the region.

However, the researchers told Tikal that the zeolite stone may have been brought from Bajo de Azucar, north of the city.

Professor Nicholas Dumming said that minerals such as zeolite and quartz were released after a volcanic eruption in the region.

Dumming said, “The clear and fresh water that emerged after the explosion was famous. We have evidence of workers working to store water at Bajo de Azucar in bottles. The Mayans discovered that the zeolite and other minerals produced by the explosion can clean the water, and then they built a water purification system by moving these substances to Tikal.”

The Mayan civilization is one of the pre-Columbian American civilizations founded by the Native American Maya peoples.

The Maya civilization, a Central American civilization, ruled for thousands of years in the region from southeast Mexico to Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. The discoveries made that the “Ancient Mayans” were at an advanced level of civilization in many fields such as astronomy, mathematics, architecture and art. The last Mayan state was destroyed in 1901 by the invasion of the capital Chan Santa Cruz by Mexico.”

Written by Maraaz

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